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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Joliet Woman is Fighting MS with a Positive Attitude

When you meet Heather Frelichowski, you may notice a couple things. She has a smile that lights up her face. She has a sense of style that is part bohemian, part I-don’t-care-what-you-think, part theater geek. You may notice that she really likes her shoes and her purses.

When Frelichowski met up with me for dinner on Wednesday, she was wearing a pink bandana with cupcakes on it. That was covering the peach fuzz that is growing back on her head, but she is basically bald. You may notice that about her too. She and I ate at En Lai, which Patch will review on May 7.

Frelichowski is fighting cancer, avoids gluten because she is a diagnosed celiac and occasionally drops things or falls because she has Multiple Sclerosis.

Frelichowski was diagnosed with MS in 2009 after she had tingling and numbness in her extremeties.

“It was gradual, it would be like one day my little finger would be numb and the next day it would be fine,” she said.

She finally decided to go to the doctor when the numbness got a little more serious.

“The final decision was when I stepped down and I could not feel the floor underneath me when I was walking,” Frelichowski said. “That sucked.”

She fell down that day. After three MRIs and four lumbar punctures, she was diagnosed with MS.

Frelichowski has relapsing-remitting MS, which is characterized by periods of relapse and periods of MS attacks.

Frelichowski is the parent to two boys under the age of 10. She works two jobs outside the home. And she volunteers in her husband’s unit – 501st Legion, Midwest Garrison.

She is coping with her symptoms, from MS, cancer, chemo and celiac disease with one mantra – one day at a time.

“You never know exactly if you’re going to be fine the next day or if you’re not going to be able to walk, or if your hand is going to be numb or if you are going to go to pick up something and it will slip right out of your fingers and it will shatter all over your floor,” she said.

SYMPTOMS of MS

In multiple sclerosis , damage to the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS), and to the nerve fibers themselves, interferes with the transmission of nerve signals between the brain and spinal cord and other parts of the body. This disruption of nerve signals produces the primary symptoms of MS, which vary depending on where the damage has occurred.

Over the course of the disease, some symptoms will come and go, while others may be more lasting.

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